What's new in Quizado
Every change we think a host should know about, newest first.
5.0.0
- New
Players can play in the Quizado Mobile Apps
A player scans the join QR with the phone's camera and the Quizado Mobile Apps open the game itself, with the team and the score in a bar that never moves. No account is needed: a new player creates a team or asks to join one inside the app. A bingo card, a drawing or a picture answer still hands that round to the browser.
- New
Put the board on the bar's television, with no laptop in the room
Install Quizado on an Apple TV or a Google TV and type the six digits from the host's phone, or cast the board to a Chromecast from the Quizado Mobile Apps. It runs over the internet, so the pub's guest Wi-Fi does not have to cooperate, and if the TV drops, the round and the clock carry on.
- New
Run the round from the lock screen or your watch
Pocket the phone mid-round and the Quizado Mobile Apps keep the question, the countdown and the leading team on the lock screen, with the panel's three buttons: lock the answers, reveal, next question. A paired watch gives you the same buttons, and the phone knocks when the answers lock and when the answer goes up.
- New
Your phone and your computer find each other on their own
Signed in to the same account, the phone offers to use the computer that is already in the room - either the phone becomes the team buzzers for the game on the computer, or the computer becomes the screen for a game you host from the phone. No code to read across the bar, and the Connect Remote panel now names the computer you are standing at with a four-digit number that never changes.
- Better
Resume a night on any device and your teams stay in the room
A night picked up on another computer, a replacement phone or a fresh install keeps its join code, its display code and its teams, so nobody rejoins and nothing on the wall changes. Answers already sent to an open question come back with it, and the reveal scores them.
- New
Quizado on your phone's home screen
The Quizado Mobile Apps add three widgets: the next night with its venue and pack, who is leading your league, and the pack tonight will play. Shortcuts start tonight's game, lock the buzzers or open one of your packs by name.
- New
Four things worth knowing when the app is shut
Your AI pack has finished writing, the week's new packs have landed, a league table has moved, and a night you scheduled starts in half an hour. Quizado asks once, after your first finished game. Settings has a switch for each and quiet hours in your venue's own time - and quiz nights are exempt.
- New
Import questions from any app on your phone
Share a CSV, a TSV, an Excel file or a plain table into Quizado and it reads the columns itself, in your language, shows you what it made of each one, and puts them in a new pack named after the file.
- New
Share the night to Instagram Stories in one tap
A finished 9:16 card with your venue's branding, the top three teams and when the next night is. No Instagram, no problem: the card is saved to your camera roll and the share sheet is one tap away.
- New
Your teams, team photos and buzzer sounds in the Quizado Mobile Apps
A player in the Quizado Mobile Apps finds their teams again on the next night, can give the team a photo and a buzzer sound, and can leave an email to keep their stats, as in the browser. A returning team that picks a new photo or sound on the way in now keeps it.
- Better
Arm Auto-Host and start before anyone has joined
The night waits on the join screen with the QR up and opens round 1 the moment the first team scans it, so you can start the night and walk away. Disarm it and the QR comes down again.
- Better
The players' phones tell the truth
A tap made as the question changes can only answer the question it was aimed at, a buzz the host never received says so, and a phone that loses its connection says nothing it taps reaches the host. Wagers and knockouts hold through the round, and a guest keeps the final results until they leave them.
- Better
A new look on the players' phones
Every screen on a player's phone follows one design: the round and question number above each question, the rules as short chips and a clear result after each answer. The end of the night is one page with the standings, a brag card to share and your answers question by question.
- Better
Music Bingo that the whole room can follow
The big screen puts the pattern panel and the scoreboard side by side in letters the back of the room can read, keeps the join QR up through the round, says when every song has been called, and clears the award toast on time. On the phone the call button names the pattern you are playing for and refuses one that has already been awarded.
- Fixed
Switch accounts on one device and host straight away
A device stayed tied to the account that hosted on it first, so after switching accounts a game opened no room. When the server still refuses a device, for example after an expired sign-in, the host screen now says why.
- Fixed
Rules and recaps that say what really happened
A host's manual "No answer" counts as unanswered, not wrong, so accuracy reads right; a tied night names every winner. The betting screen states the default stake and whether a wrong answer costs it, untimed buzzer rounds no longer promise a ten-second clock, and an eliminated team sees the round-break standings like everybody else.
- Fixed
The small print on the big screen is readable again
The "Scan to join" caption and the "Disconnected" badge were drawn at a size nobody could read across a room on a 4K television. Venue colours and background pictures also keep the board readable now, and the join card no longer sits on top of the standings.
- Fixed
The Family Feud question stays hidden until you reveal it
The board used to show the question on the big screen before you had a chance to read it aloud, so a buzzer race gave nothing away. It stays face-down again until you turn it over.
- Fixed
Family Feud shows every answer before moving on
Awarding a round used to skip straight to the next question when several answers were already found, instead of turning over what was left. The board now reveals what's left, one at a time, before it moves on.
4.18.0
- New
A What is new panel after every update
The first time you run a new version, a short panel lists only the changes that affect how you host, each one tagged new, better or fixed.
- New
Know when a newer web version is ready
A tab left open all evening now tells you a newer build is ready. The app never reloads itself, and never offers to while a game is running.
- Better
See what a desktop update contains
The update prompt now lists the changes in the version on offer, in your own language, instead of only naming its number.
- Fixed
A new web release reaches you right away
The page that loads the app was cached with no expiry rule, so a returning host could keep running the previous build until they forced a refresh.
4.17.0
- New
The join QR stays on the board all night
A table that arrives mid-round can scan and play without waiting for you. Your QR button now highlights the code full screen instead of hiding it.
- New
Decide who starts a team once the quiz is running
A phone that creates a team mid-game waits on your banner instead of seating itself. Approving adds them at zero points; the lobby is unchanged by default.
- New
Import questions in bulk with a preview you can check
Sample questions show their answers and images, and a missing image names the row to fix. An accepted import survives a reload and lists what you ran.
- Fixed
A paid licence is no longer shown the free plan
A lifetime plan, a one-off purchase or a licence granted by hand read as neither paid nor free, so every menu answered with the upgrade window.
- Fixed
Family Feud and Jeopardy history reads properly
Only the questions you actually opened are counted and listed, with the points each team banked. A finished game used to say eight questions and zero.
- Better
Advice for the room you actually run
A pub, an offsite, a classroom and a party each get their own first step, and your plan states its real player allowance before the first game.
- Better
Review AI pictures at full size
The review step opens a keyboard-accessible lightbox instead of tiny thumbnails, and a numeric question shows the rule it will be scored by.
- Fixed
The browser app says where offline mode lives
A browser tab cannot store question sets or host without a connection, so it points at the desktop and mobile apps instead of offering downloads.